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OiO5roor •
The tempo 4f Otte sc ioois
piclsed upp this ween' as atndents
began to bane up Or exam -
time, that, often torturing finale
to the school year which bolds
in pressure through I4ay and
June. -
Teen-agers of every genera-
tion have been an enigma to
their parents, and the present -
crop of "young adults" is no
exception. There is growing evi-
dence, however, that young
Canadians heading into the job
markets during the next five
years will be the best educat-
ed, most alert and most artieu
late ever turned out -by the Can-
adian school system.
Does this mean that our edu-
cation system has reached some
kind of Utopia, or that every-
thing done in our schools today
is done for the best reasons,
with the best results?
Of course not. But it does
mean that broadly speaking,
Canadian communities are at
last coming to grips with the
problem, of preparing young
people for the •kind of world
they are going to have to face.
This must be due partly to a
better balanced judgment of
their elders as to What kind of
world 'young people are going
to face.
On the positive side, there is
probably less political naivete
today than ever before. There
is more questioning of Iong-ac-
cepted` standards, less blind ac-
ceptance of political and social
norms.
The young Canadians who
have become part of the "glo-
bal community" -through televi-
sion and other media, do seem
to care about what is happen-
ing on the face of this earth;
They wonder about Vietnam,
the bomb, the Negro revolution,
the -Quebec question,- and the
treatment of our Indians.
• One outlet for their idealism
—hopefully an idealism with-.
out illusions—may be in the
Company of Young Canadians
who:will soon be going Ant() de-
pressed areas,. Indian reserva-
tions, and backwood communi-
ties to help other Canadians tit
better life.
North Annelid's eduhation
system may noW be said to
have reached the second' stage
of impienletiting the principle
of universal education.
In the pre -World War II
years, edttcg'tors set crit to give
every cititen a standard educe-
Classifiedads pay div'i'dends.
tion, hopefully concluding in a' -
university liberal arts course,
This was the heyday of "Pre-
gressive education," when start-
ling new . and often disas-
trous methods . . were tried
in such fields as child permis-
siveness, the teaching, of read-
ing by word recognition (which'
never worked) and so on,
The sudden .arrival of the• sec-
ond industrial revolution in the
form, of automation brought a'
second look ateducation after
World War II.
It became increasingly appar-
ent that education had to be
modelled for the student, rather-;
than the reverse., Differences of
intelligence and background be-
gan to •be recognized. What is
good for one student.ls harm=
101 for another, and the •recog
nition of this brought an end'
tb the idea that everyone's goals'`
should be the same. -.
The fact that an alarminw
percentage of students were un-
able to cope with the academic"
courses of our schools led to
spin-off courses in technical and
commercial fields. This has al-
ready brought a reduction in'
drop -outs and promises to be
more successful in training
young people for fields in which
they will be better able to de-
velop their, potential.
But a third stage of educa-
tion evolution is needed to head
off equally severe problems..
arising from excessive empha-
sis
mphasis on school success:
Sociologists have discovered
that too many young North
Americans are trapped by their
parents in a kind of academie
ulcer derby.
One, Dr. Arthur Barron, of
the University of Chicago, re-
ported recently that a ,study
showed many youngsters "are
paying a terrible price because
of the enormous pressure on
them for geed grades and sue -
cess in later. life,
"They think happiness is a
big house, two cars and a 0t
of money," Dr. Barron concha,'
ed: "One wonders if they have
not been moulded too much in
Our image at this tender ate."
Perhaps it ,will talte another
generation for. North Amerieens
to learn to live with affhtldice
in what is still an unafiltient
world.
Hks This Hour
" Run Out?
•
Canada's most ;popular televz�
sion program, This Hour Xmas
Seven Days, had its final show-
ing of the season last Sunday
and it's still not known whether
it will be back; in the fall,
There is no need• to recount
here the events which led up.
to' the firing of co -i Osts Patrick
Watson and Laurier Lapierrb,
and the threatened strike of
producers which was averted
only by the apPeint1tiq*2t of
newspaper publisher Stuart
',Keate as an informal mediator
in the dispute.
The fate of the" Seven Days
show was not, on the face of it,
an important natio al, is'aue. "But':
it was a controversy that at-
tracted great attention because
the people behind the program
bad known how to use -the in-
tense impact of TV to popular-
ize issues that were important
to the nation.
The Seven Days show repre-
sented one of the very few occa-
sions when TV had been used
to stir the emotions and even
the intellect, of the average
viewer.
Typical CBC "public affairs"
programs have been informa-
tive, intelligently produced; and
skilfully presented. But most of
them also have gone high over
the heads of the majority, of
Canadians. like a pitcher who
knew what he was aiming at
but couldn't keep the ball over
home plate:
'This was 'clearly not the case
of Seven Days. It tackled vital
i§sues in a way that involved
the average man on the street—
be it -the treatment of Indians
in Northern Ontario; the path-
etic figure of • spy suspect Victor
Spencer; or the tragedy of a
thalidomide baby..,,
Why, there, did CBC preslderit
Alphonse 'Ouimet (recently ap-
pointed to another. seven-year
term) move so drastically in MS
decision to dump Watson and
LaPierre?
If there had been a great pub-
lic outcry about Seven Days, of
if there had been widespread
public revulsion against Mther
the content or the treatment .Of
the shows, `;the action would
;04.velee F 1 nderstan 'able,het this tthes ss<,reln'a9:°.w.le,leamtt,eted ,a• xarger udlenee # ar
APT niter P30: p1'ogra1xi •(watt
too a eof Hockey .w 1eh
dgesn't eptigrt really qualify as a jao
grant), atid' which bad gained.
treat publicity by storing a
number 4f ,major scoops.
Prddueer Doggies Letterman
says the .C$C .las not given any'
"egngprehensible reason" for the
hriitg of "toe co'hosts. There has
been. references by'CDC brass to
Sevela Days' alleged "loch of
good taste" or "irresponsibiti-
these
ty", Butthings? •how Certainly ,thi}o you measure
-
eral Canadian standards of taste
have not been offended by Sev-
en Days. Unless Mr. Ouimet is
prepared to enforce a taste
standard which is clearly not
shared by Canadians in general;
then his complaint on this score
is hardly acCeptable.
In defense of the CBC, it has
been argued that "management
"has. the right to manage," and
that if the network chiefs want
to dump a performer, they have
every right to do so.
The rights of management ap-
ply even in a publicly -owned
corporation such as the CBC.
But management trust 'aIso be
responsible to its owners, which
in the cage of•'the CBC, is each
and every one of us.
It may be that Mr. Quimet, in
his wisdom, will be able to in-
stall new hosts for Seven -Days
who will do a better job than
Watson and LaPierre, and pro-
duce an even more popular
show. If he is not able to do
this, then he should resign, be-
cause if management has the
right to manage, the stockhold-
ers also have the right to hold
management responsible for its
Actions.
As Hon. Judy LaMarsh has
commented, the Seven Days fi-
asco is only "the tip of the ice-
berg" in the CBC's troubles.
These troubles will be pinpoint-
ed in the forthcoming govern-
ment white paper on broadcast-
ing. There is growing suspicion
that the CBC is overloaded with
executive fate—the way the fir-
ings were handled suggests am-
ple evidence of this—and that
1Vf es§rs. ViratSon and LaPierre
were dutnpea not because of in-
discretions on Seven Days, but
for their oft -repeated criticism
4f how the CBC is run under
Mr. ouitnet.
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